Tank “size”? Described or Damage Value?

[Peter]

Is a Chi-Ha Medium Tank a medium tank or a light tank (it has a damage value 8+ light tank)?

• This topic was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by Peter.

[Stuart Harrison]

In game terms it’s a light tank.

[Donald Linn]

It’s a medium tank with thin armour. Lots of earlier “mediums” eg PzIV , or Crusader have 8+ armour

[Peter]

In game terms a tank size is its damage value?

[Stuart Harrison]

Yes. It’s no different than the British calling the Vickers .303 machine gun a ‘heavy’ machine gun, while in game it’s an MMG – titles and descriptions mean nothing in game (usually reflecting what they called it in their own forces at the time rather than a comparison against a class of weapons/vehicles around the world), it’s the stats from the unit entry that tell you what it’s treated as.

[SteveT]

The name of its entry in the Japanese forces book is something of a giveaway.

“TYPE 97 CHI-HA MEDIUM TANK”. :p

It mostly seems to be a criterion of which slot it gets put in armour lists, and/or how it was used, and yes, the bizarrely named “damage value”.

Tank size occasionally crops up in some rules: like a tank ramming a building, or (from the optional campaign books) getting stuck in rubble.

 

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